Bug#894049: transition: ncurses
On 2018-05-06 08:32 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> On 06/05/18 02:05, peter green wrote:
>> I suspect fpc will also need a sourceful upload for the new ncurses. I would
>> recommend not binnmuing it until the maintainers have had chance to take a look.
>
> It's not on https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/libncurses6.html so I
> wasn't planning on binNMUing it.
>
>> Is there a full list of differences between the version 5 and 6 ABIs anywhere?
>> chtype has already been mentioned, are there any others?
>
> Cc'ing Sven for that.
The chtype and mmask_t types have both changed from unsigned long to
unsigned int in the new ncurses ABI, and NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION has been
bumped from 1 to 2. AFAIK these are the only incompatible changes.
The fpc package should probably apply the attached patch and
build-depend on libncurses-dev (>= 6.1+20180210) to ensure that it gets
built against the new ABI.
That being said, ncurses.pp is based on ncurses 5.6 which is over eleven
years old. Somebody ought to update it upstream for ncurses 6.0 or
newer, I guess.
Cheers,
Sven
--- a/fpcsrc/packages/ncurses/src/ncurses.pp 2015-06-18 10:59:10.000000000 +0200
+++ b/fpcsrc/packages/ncurses/src/ncurses.pp 2018-05-06 08:46:48.731837657 +0200
@@ -69,13 +69,13 @@ const
NCURSES_VERSION_MINOR = 6;
NCURSES_VERSION_PATCH = 20061217;
NCURSES_VERSION = '5.6';
- NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION = 1;
+ NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION = 2;
type
pchtype = ^chtype;
- chtype = culong;
+ chtype = cuint;
pmmask_t = ^mmask_t;
- mmask_t = culong;
+ mmask_t = cuint;
{ colors }
var
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